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Kyoto, Japan - April 20, 2026: Busy narrow crowded streets near Gion Kiyomizu-dera temple
m01229 has added a photo to the pool:
Lush Japanese garden and pagoda near Kiyomizu-dera Temple in Kyoto
John from Brisbane has added a photo to the pool:
Brisbane River, Queensland. Eco Tour on the river, note they are being pulled by the power boat. Riverside Expressway behind and city. Traffic above and below of different types, three layers here! Looks like fun if you don't have to paddle!
Keith Midson has added a photo to the pool:
Beneath the Batman Bridge, northern Tasmania.
“And in my mind as I was floating
Far above the clouds
Some children laughed I'd fall for certain
For thinking that I'd last forever
But I knew exactly where I was
And I knew the meaning of it all
And I knew the distance to the sun
And I knew the echo that is love
And I knew the secrets in your spires
And I knew the emptiness of youth
And I knew the solitude of heart
And I knew the murmurs of the soul" - Muzzle, Smashing Pumpkins
Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:
The rear of the King's Head Hotel which has been partially demolished to make way for a new high-rise development.
Adelaide CBD
Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:
Wright Street Hotel is now closed after being sold to developers to build a multi-story development. They have done nothing to the site since purchasing and this great heritage building is slowly deteriorating.
Wright Street, Adelaide CBD
KERKRADE (ANP) - Aan de Toupsbergstraat in het Limburgse Kerkrade is in de nacht van vrijdag op zaterdag een auto een woning binnengereden. De bestuurder en een inzittende van de auto raakten gewond. Zij zijn met letsel naar het ziekenhuis gebracht. Dat heeft de politie bekendgemaakt.
Het incident gebeurde rond 01.30 uur. De woning liep schade op, maar volgens de politie bestaat er geen instortingsgevaar. De bewoners liepen geen verwondingen op.
HAVANA (ANP) - De voormalige Cubaanse leider Raúl Castro (95) is vrijdag op de staatstelevisie verschenen. Hij was aanwezig op een evenement op het ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken dat werd uitgezonden.
Het was de eerste publieke verschijning van de oud-president sinds hij vorige maand in de Verenigde Staten werd aangeklaagd wegens moord.
De VS menen dat Castro betrokken was bij het neerhalen van twee civiele vliegtuigjes in 1996. Daarbij vielen vier doden, onder wie drie Amerikanen. Volgens de huidige Cubaanse regering is de aanklacht gebaseerd op valse beschuldigingen die bedoeld zijn als excuus voor een invasie van het eiland. Het is al tijden onrustig tussen beide landen, mede vanwege de Amerikaanse brandstofblokkade en dreigementen van Trump richting Cuba.
De VS stelden deze week nog sancties in tegen de Cubaanse president Miguel Díaz-Canel en leden van de familie Castro, onder anderen tegen de zoon en kleinzoon van Raúl Castro.
Thomas Hawk posted a photo:
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Ahead of its upcoming IPO, SpaceX announced that Google will pay the company $920 million per month for access to roughly 110,000 Nvidia GPUs and related compute infrastructure. Google says the agreement is short-term "bridge capacity" to meet stronger-than-expected demand for Gemini Enterprise, while SpaceX is using deals like this and its Anthropic contract to bolster its pitch for a historic public offering. TechCrunch reports: The deal is similar in length and scope to the one SpaceX announced with Anthropic in late May. As part of that deal, Anthropic agreed to pay SpaceX $1.25 billion per month through 2029 to rent all the available compute from its Colossus 1 data center near Memphis, Tennessee that xAI -- now part of SpaceX -- originally built for its own artificial intelligence efforts.
Google's deal appears to be paying for roughly half the amount of compute that Anthropic has access to at Colossus 1. SpaceX didn't say which specific data center Google would be using. CEO Elon Musk has previously suggested his company would reserve the Colossus 2 data center for xAI. Anthropic was significantly limited in its compute capacity prior to its deal with SpaceX, raising usage limits on the same day the deal was announced. Google is in a very different position, with some estimates naming it as the world's largest single owner of AI compute.
[...] Also like the Anthropic deal, the agreement with Google includes a cancellation clause. Both SpaceX and Google have the option to terminate the agreement with 90 days notice after December 31, 2026. Google's access to the data center will ramp up "through September at a reduced fee," according to the filing. "If we fail to deliver access to the committed amount of GPUs by September 30, 2026, then following a one-month grace period, Google may immediately terminate the agreement or accept the number of GPUs provided" with a reduction in the monthly fees, it reads.
Google's deal appears to be paying for roughly half the amount of compute that Anthropic has access to at Colossus 1. SpaceX didn't say which specific data center Google would be using. CEO Elon Musk has previously suggested his company would reserve the Colossus 2 data center for xAI. Anthropic was significantly limited in its compute capacity prior to its deal with SpaceX, raising usage limits on the same day the deal was announced. Google is in a very different position, with some estimates naming it as the world's largest single owner of AI compute.
[...] Also like the Anthropic deal, the agreement with Google includes a cancellation clause. Both SpaceX and Google have the option to terminate the agreement with 90 days notice after December 31, 2026. Google's access to the data center will ramp up "through September at a reduced fee," according to the filing. "If we fail to deliver access to the committed amount of GPUs by September 30, 2026, then following a one-month grace period, Google may immediately terminate the agreement or accept the number of GPUs provided" with a reduction in the monthly fees, it reads.
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